Posted on 04/10/2024 3:43:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The New York Times is weeping over the death penalty again, publishing a glowing review of Nashville reporter Steven Hale's book "Death Row Welcomes You." Obviously, it's an important book, since only 1 million journalists have already written about their touching and personal relationships with men sentenced to death.
Although I am generally a hate-reader -- having, for example, at least skimmed nearly every book about Trump (he's a Russian asset, a threat to democracy, a conman and sociopath) -- I can't in good conscience contribute to an author who waxes on about his "friends" on death row, their "beautiful paintings," and how supporters want to "celebrate" the life of men who just happened to mercilessly torture and kill helpless human beings.
So this will be a review of the Times' review, with supplementary information from Amazon's book sample, plus news reports and court records about the crimes that put Hale's friends on death row.
Hale, the Times writes, gives an insider's account of death row -- a place "shrouded by myths of monsters and abominations."
Myths?
Yes. For example, the Times starts with three paragraphs on Billy Ray Irick, such as the "abuse" he suffered as a child. (If you've ever been spanked, the media will turn you into the star of "Mommy Dearest.") We also get Hale's description of Irick's response to lethal injection: "He jolted ... His face turned almost purple."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
There’s NOTHING *beautiful* about someone who beats, rapes, and/or murders others.
It’s not a “penalty”. It’s justice.
Ann used to be relevant. Those days are long past.
The sooner she puts herself into retirement, the better off she’ll be in the long run.
“the Times starts with three paragraphs on Billy Ray Irick, such as the “abuse” he suffered as a child.”
Many children suffer from abuse due to an abusive parent that do not end up murdering another human. Maybe that author should talk the authorities into freeing that perp on the condition he live with him and he rehabilitate the perp.
I have one benchmark I apply in stories of death row inmates: is their victim(s) mentioned? Because there are two sides to what got them there. One of them involves a person who no longer has the option to live.
Then he paused and said...."thank God we have prisons". Then he spoke of asking one guy why he killed three people. "Because they was home",was the answer.
Many children suffer from abuse ... do not end up murdering another human.
I find it bizarre and highly unreasonable to give more than a moment’s consideration to anything Ann Coulter has to say.
She doesn’t appear to believe anything she claims to stand for.
The criminal scum in government are always looking for new ways to steal our money.
They could make a fortune selling tickets to watch these murderers die, and even more by auctioning off the opportunity to pull the switch for the electric chair.
Just again watched THE GREEN MILE—Tom Hanks 1999 movie. Very powerful!
A classic.
He was ahead of his time with the language -- sounds like today's middle-schooler. But comic genius, absolutely. Love all the accents. It's rare to hear blacks doing multiple impressions of other ethnicities, but he was ace at that.
And FWIW, what a beautifully-fitted suit. He must have had it made for him. It draped perfectly no matter how he moved.
Greatly missed. Schlubs like Whoopi Goldberg and Tracy Morgan aren't fit to shine his shoes.
Row, metmom wrote:
There’s NOTHING *beautiful* about someone who beats, rapes, and/or murders others.
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AMEN to that! Multiple survivors, millions of them, grieve the loss of their loved ones every day. Every. Single. Day.
There is no closure, ever.
We really don’t give a flip if these demented people can draw pretty pictures.
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